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Assimilation vs Apperception - What's the difference?

assimilation | apperception |

As nouns the difference between assimilation and apperception

is that assimilation is the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated while apperception is the mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.

assimilation

English

(assimilation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of assimilating]] or the state of being [[assimilate, assimilated.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1996, date=January 26, author=Bertha Husband, title=Double Identity, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.}}
  • The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Washington Gladden, title=The Church and Modern Life, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We have great need to be careful in these assimilations ; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.}}
  • (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  • (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
  • (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

    • Related terms

    * assimilate

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    apperception

    English

    (wikipedia apperception)

    Noun

  • (uncountable, psychology, and, philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
  • (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
  • * 2009 , Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia :
    • For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
  • (countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

    • Related terms

    * apperceive * apperceptive

    References

    * * * * *" apperception" in Encyclopedia Britannica , 1911 ed. * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. ''See: "Apperception" by Otto F. Kkraushaar, p. 15.